Eric William Padwick (23 January 1923 – 29 March 2010) was a professional
bibliographer who compiled the definitive bibliography of
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literature. He was also Deputy Librarian of the
Guildhall Library.
The Cricket Society commissioned him to compile a comprehensive bibliography of cricket literature under the title ''A Bibliography of Cricket''. The first edition, published in 1977 by the
Library Association
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had 8294 entries. It covered the period until 1973. A revised edition, published in 1984, extended the number of entries to over 10,000. A second volume, published in 1991 as ''Padwick's Bibliography of Cricket, Volume 2'', was compiled by Stephen Eley and Peter Griffiths and covered works published between 1980 and 1990 (). In 2008 Stephen W. Gibbs published in a limited edition ''Post Padwick: The Gibbs Extension of Padwick's Bibliography, 1990-2006'', with 7049 entries.
Of the first edition,
John Arlott wrote in his review of the cricket books of 1977 in ''
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' that it "is one of the most important works in the entire history of cricket literature... This is a major contribution not only to cricket at present, but to its literature of the future."
[''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'', 1978 edition, p. 1117.]
Padwick died on 29 March 2010, aged 87.
Bibliography
Items are "by E. W. Padwick" except where otherwise noted.
*''The Librarian Subject Guide to Books, Vol. 1, History, travel & description ''/ general editor
Lionel R. McColvin, associate editors K. R. McColvin, E. W. Padwick. pub. Clarke, 1959.
*''The Librarian Subject Guide to Books, Volume Two, Biography, Family History, Heraldry, Genealogy Etc..'', general editor Lionel R. McColvin, associate editors K. R. McColvin, E. W. Padwick. pub. James Clarke, 1960.
*''Education: A Guide to Current Literature'', 1963, .
*''Bibliographical Method'' (Aspects of Librarianship Series), pub. James Clarke & Co Ltd, 1969, .
*''A Bibliography of Cricket'', 1st edition, pub. Library Association, 1977, .
*''Sixteen Fleet Street, 1522-1980: A house and its tenants'', private circulation only, 1982.
*''A Bibliography of Cricket'', 2nd edition, pub. Library Association in association with McKenzie (Bookseller) on behalf of Cricket Society, 1984, .
*''William Herbert 1772-1851: Actor, Antiquary and Librarian'', by Donovan Dawe and E. W. Padwick, Guildhall Library Publications, 1998, .
Further reading
*
Irving Rosenwater, ''The Padwick "bibliography" – Its Genesis'', Newnham-on-Severn: Christopher Saunders, 2002.
Post PadwickE. W. Padwick: Obituary: The Cricket Society
Notes and references
British bibliographers
British librarians
Cricket historians and writers
1923 births
2010 deaths
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